How to do on-shoring right

Avigilon is one of the fastest-growing electronics companies in North America.

The company makes surveillance cameras, some of which top the high-definition charts, and back that hardware up with a sophisticated software offering to manage file sizes and data. (Here is an interview we conducted during the Drive for Innovation at Avigilon's downtown Vancouver, B.C., headquarters).

So you'd think that that fast growth and profitability would be fueled by a savvy manufacturing strategy that leveraged offshore labor and machinery to keep overhead low.